Brit Marling Quotes
When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.
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I cry all the time. I love to laugh, too. It's important to create an environment for yourself where you feel what you need to and don't hold it in.
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Exposure makes you famous, not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I don't like allegories.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
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On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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If most people were to take a moment to picture in their minds the average, not-for-profit, save-the-world girl, they... well, they probably wouldn't, because who wants to think about hemp, hairy legs, and Birkenstocks? But I'd rather eat a pair of Birkenstocks than put them on my feet, and I love, love, love my Christian Louboutins.
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I've always liked men better than women.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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I had been out there long enough. I had not seen my family for four years.
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When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.
